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2 AM and she calls me 'cause I'm still awake,
'Can you help me unravel my latest mistake?
I don't love him, winter just wasn't my season'
Yeah we walk through the doors, so accusing their eyes
Like they have any right at all to criticize,
Hypocrites, you're all here for the very same reason

'Cause you can't jump the track,we're like cars on a cable
And life's like an hourglass glued to the table.
No one can find the rewind button girl,
so cradle your head in your hands
and breathe, just breathe,
Whoa... breathe, just breathe...

May, he turns 21 on the base at Fort Bliss.
'Just a day.' He said, down to the flask in his fist.
Ain't been sober, since maybe October of last year.
Here in town you can tell he's been down for a while,
but my God it's so beautiful when the boy smiles.
Wanna hold him, maybe I'll just sing about it.

Cause you can't jump the track, we're like cars on a cable,
and life's like an hourglass glued to the table.
No one can find the rewind button boys,
So cradle your head in your hands,
And breathe, just breathe,
Woah breathe, just breathe

There's a light at each end of this tunnel, you shout.
'Cause you're just as far in as you'll ever be out.
These mistakes you've made, you'll just make them again
if you only try turning around.

2 AM and I'm still awake, writing a song.
If I get it all down on paper its no longer
inside of me, threatening the life it belongs to.
And, I feel like I'm naked in front of the crowd
'cause these words are my diary screaming out loud.
And, I know that you'll use them however you want to.

Cause you can't jump the track, we're like cars on a cable.
And, life's like an hourglass glued to the table.
No one can find the rewind button now.
Sing it if you understand.
And breathe, just breathe
Whoa... breathe, just breathe,
Oh breathe, just breathe...

~Anna Nalick, Breathe (2AM)

I've got this pain in my neck that I've had since sunday morning.

blah blah blah...

"but beware. anger, fear, aggression. the dark side are they. once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny."

I took a really hot shower this morning, so hot my skinned turned pink. I was thenceforth able to move my neck around in a much greater range of movement, but the dull pain still remains...

I'm going to attribute it to lack of sleep, sleeping in a bad position, and malnutrition.

that said, I'm going to go back to my apartment, drink a red bull, run, and then eat a chicken soft taco, hard boiled egg whites, iced tea, and maybe some soy milk.

then I will close myself up in my room, put on a movie, and cry myself to sleep.

... ... ...

Mr. Newberry: Did I have you figured wrong?

Martin Blank: I don't know - I mean I hope so.

Mr. Newberry: I visualised you in a haze as one of those slackster, flannel-wearing, coffee-house misanthropes I've been seeing in Newsweek.

Martin Blank: No no no, I went the other road. Six figures, doing business with leadpipe cruelty, mercenary sensibility. You know... sports, sex, no real relationships. How about you - how have the years been treating you?

Mr. Newberry: Well you know me Martin - still the same old sell-out, exploiting the oppressed...

Martin Blank: Sure.

Mr. Newberry: Ah what a piece of work is man, how noble... oh fuck it, let's have a drink and forget the whole damn thing.

~grosse pointe blank

La la la la la la la la la la
I wrote her off for the tenth time today
And practiced all the things I would say
When she came over
I lost my nerve
I took her back and made her dessert
Now I know I'm being used
That's okay man cause I like the abuse
I know she's playing with me
That's okay cause I've got no self esteem

Oh way oh, yeah, yeah
Oh, yeah, yeah

We make plans to go out at night
I wait till 2 then I turn out the light
this rejection’s got me so low
If she keeps it up I just might tell her so

When she's saying, oh that she want's only me
Then I wonder why she sleeps with my friends
When she saying, that I'm like a disease
Then I wonder how much more I can spend
Well I guess, I should stick up for myself
But I really think it's better this way
The more you suffer
The more it shows you really care Right? Yeah!

Now I'll relate, this little bit
That happens more than I'd like to admit
Late at night, she knocks on my door
She's drunk again and looking to score
Now I know, I should say no, but
That's kind of hard when she's ready to go
I may be dumb, but I'm not a dweeb
I'm just a sucker with no self esteem

When she's saying, oh that she want's only me
Then I wonder why she sleeps with my friends
When she's saying, that I'm like a disease
Then I wonder how much more I can spend
Well I guess, I should stick up for myself
But I really think it's better this way
The more you suffer
The more it shows you really care Right? Yeah!

~Offspring

• There will be a shortfall of 3 million workers between the projected workforce and the number of jobs required in the United States by 2016.


• 19% of the entire U.S. workforce holding executive, administrative, and managerial positions will retire in the next five years.


• Within the next seven years, over 33 million individuals in Japan (26% of the population) are expected to be over 65 years old.


• In the U.S., education, public administration, and healthcare and social assistance are among the sectors characterized by early retirement, with median retirement age at 57.1, 58.2, and 60.3, respectively.


• In the year 2000, there were more people receiving pensions in Italy (22 million) than people working (21 million).


• One-child restrictions in China have created a labor shortfall that will impact cheap labor in the region.


• India is expected to have a shortfall of 150,000 IT engineers and 350,000 business process staff by 2010.

Statistics from International Data Corporation - idc.com

in the future, will we have to endure the daily commute to the office?

how many of the jobs that we commute to the office for no longer really require us to be at the office?

I know that I could do my job as long as I had a phone number or an IM program to reach everyone I need to talk to.

net meeting, pc anywhere, timbuktu allow us to view and control another person's desktop remotely.

broadband internet access, VPN, video conferencing, ip phones, file servers, etc. are so commonplace now it is getting to the point where it is strange not to have them.

there will be an increased demand in security, there will be, it will be so much easier to freelance, retired people will easily be able to consult on an as needed basis.

face it - physically being there is no longer necessary.

if you can get remote access, I would most certainly do it - it is much cheaper for me to be wokring from home calling your sorry butt on the phone that it is for me to fly out to where you are, where I just e-mail everyone what they need to do, and people just call me if they have questions. most of the meetings that I go to are only half as productive as they need to be, and the rest of the meetings are pointless.

I guess, companies feel comfortable when they see face in their buildings.

seriously, if you build me a tablet PC the size of a drafting desk, I would never have to print anything out ever...

ok, well not ever, but for the most part...

think about all the money you would save on reducing the amount of real estate you need...

ooohhh... and the amount of gasoline!

drawbacks: it would so easy for companies to try to reach you at all hours of the day (easily mitigated though), separating home and work will be a little more challenging - especially those with kids.

your performance reviews would have to be based on productivity and execution - as opposed to just being there... like so many of the useless jobs out there...

hopefully (though) this does not lead to the increase of decreased interaction between actual people.

seriously though - if I didn't eat lunch with my co-workers, they would never know if I was here or not...

::: ::: :::

"You ain't got no future, Jack! You're an A-1 nut boy."

so apparently, in america, there are different generations...

obviously.

these generations tend to overlap a bit, and as it so happens I fall in to several.

I am at the tail edge of generation x, I am in the opening edge of generation y, in the early middle of the mtv generation (subgroup of generation x)

we are now in what they are calling the new silent generation (which is the second coming of the silent generation) although I really have no idea about the sociological impact to society nor do I have the time or energy to devote my day into finding out. However, I find that anthropology and social psychology or whatever you would call the study of the generations and how people would act very fascinating.

if you read about the different generations, you will probably connect with the observations stated therein or you will resent being grouped into such a broad generalization. I have no opinion either way. apparently there are only four types of generations that keep repeating over time. I figure to just do what I need to do regardless of what the big books and big brains say, because really I would much rather be at home with my wife and my family having fun...

but it would be a good conversation - given the right mood and the right people...

[but conversations have to be organic, otherwise they just die before they even get started - but that is a story for another time]